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Cross‐Linguistic Variations in Word‐Final Position: The Parametric Hierarchies, Connections and Networks

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Word‐final position is widely recognized as a structurally weak and restricted domain, yet languages differ strikingly in how they regulate segments and clusters at the right edge. While some systems categorically prohibit final consonants, others allow only a subset of segments, and still others impose process‐based adjustments such as final ...
Semra Baturay Meral
wiley   +1 more source

Mixing signs and bones: John Deely’s case for global semiosis

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2013
The article develops a critique of John Deely’s ontological realism, specifically in its relevance for the project of global semiotics. Deely, whose theorizations rely heavily on the pre-modern philosophical systems of Thomas Aquinas and the Latin ...
Petre Petrov
doaj   +1 more source

Fire faith: images of fire on old belief icons

open access: yesStudia Humanitatis, 2022
The article is devoted to the images of fire in the Russian Old Believer icon painting of the 18th-19th centuries. The author analyzes the main iconographic scenes where this motif appears – “Seen as Fire” Mother of God, Archangel Michael-Voivode ...
Walczak Dorota
doaj  

Ideology as Metaphor, Narrative, and Performance in the Writings of Václav Havel // Ideology as Metaphor, Narrative, and Performance in the Writings of Václav Havel [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl, 2015
From his pre-1989 essays to his post-1989 presidential speeches, V. Havel develops an account of ideology that avoids a standard dictionary definition (ideology as a system of political or economic beliefs) and relies almost exclusively on elaboration ...
David S. Danaher
doaj  

The Development of the Slavic Names of the Days of the Week from Christian and Pre-Christian Elements

open access: yesStudi Slavistici
This paper is an attempt at tracing the origins of the Slavic names of the days of the week. Although these names have a clear etymology from a purely linguistic point of view, it is unknown whether they are of Christian or pagan origin, and if they were
Janusz Szablewski
doaj   +1 more source

A magyar és a szlovák (szláv) névtani terminológia összevetése

open access: yesNévtani Értesítő, 2012
Comparing Hungarian and Slovakian (Slavic) onomastic terminology     The author gives a brief survey of recent research in Hungarian and Slovakian (Slavic) onomastic terminology, and compares several onomastic terms in these languages.
János Bauko
doaj  

Reading the Body: Corporeal Imagery, Language, and Identity in Ivan Blatný’s Pomocná škola Bixley [PDF]

open access: yesSlovo a Smysl, 2015
The present study examines the manner in which Ivan Blatný approaches three interrelated themes — identity, language, and the human body — throughout Pomocná škola Bixley, his last verse collection.
José Vergara
doaj  

Aspect and pragmatics in Polish with a view to Sorbian

open access: yesLingBaW
In this paper, I discuss the meaning of the perfective aspect in Polish by taking a look at the so-called general-factual contexts, i.e., contexts that refer to completed events.
Karolina Zuchewicz
doaj   +1 more source

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